Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders both cited the Bible on Thursday to justify the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border. “Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution,” Sessions said at a speech to law enforcement…
Ivanka Trump was named in a bombshell lawsuit filed by the New York state attorney general on Thursday accusing the Donald J. Trump Foundation of operating under a “pattern of persistent illegal conduct, occurring over more than a decade.” Ivanka Trump, who served as a board member for the foundation for over a decade and…
A classified report from Israel’s foreign ministry questioned whether the summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was anything more than a photo opportunity, Axios reported Thursday. The analysis was reportedly circulated on Wednesday by the research department of the Israeli foreign ministry to all Israeli embassies around the world and…
Presidential advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner’s continued push for prison reform is angering Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Vanity Fair reported Thursday. “He hate, hate, hates it,” a source close to Sessions told Vanity Fair about the attorney general’s view of Kushner’s partnership with CNN commentator and prison reform advocate Van Jones. Some sources said that Trump may…
One of the top executives in The Trump Organization was on the board of Donald Trump’s charitable foundation for years, but said he only found out about that when the New York state attorney general announced a lawsuit aimed at shutting down the group. New York state attorney general Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit Thursday…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (JTA) — In 2015, a jihadist killed a Jewish guard outside this capital city’s main synagogue, where Hannah Bentow was having her bat mitzvah party. Her sense of security as a Jew in Denmark was shattered, she told JTA last week. Bentow and dozens of teenagers stayed inside for long uncertain minutes as police…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 92-year-old New Jersey man fulfilled his dream of moving to Israel 71 years after he arrived in New York as a refugee from the Holocaust. Jack Nasielski, of Edison, arrived Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport on a Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah flight in cooperation with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Integration, the Jewish Agency, Keren…
(JTA) — Twenty-six Jewish groups signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen opposing the government policy of separating children from their migrant parents. The letter, which was organized by the Anti-Defamation League, calls the policy “unconscionable.” Signers include three major Jewish religious movements — Conservative, Reform…
In addition to his scientific research, Albert Einstein also famously advocated for civil rights — but a series of travel diaries recently published in English for the first time revealed that the physicist held racist and xenophobic views, CNN reported. The writings record Einstein’s experiences in the Middle East and Asia between October 1922 and…
New York’s attorney general sued Ivanka Trump along with her father President Trump and his namesake foundation, saying the nonprofit should be dissolved after more than a decade of illegal conduct, including support for Trump’s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Barbara Underwood, the attorney general, accused the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors of conducting…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of Palestinians that claims to be behind the initiative to send incendiary kites and balloons from Gaza into southern Israel said it would launch 5,000 of the arson tools on Friday. The group, which calls itself the kite builders unit, also said at a news conference Thursday afternoon in central…
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